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Virginia 2022 Regular Session
Refunds of local taxes; authority of treasurer. [HB-368]
Refunds of local taxes; authority of treasurer. Increases from $5,000 to $10,000 the maximum amount that the governing body of a locality may authorize its treasurer to approve and issue for a refund of taxes paid as a result of an erroneous tax assessment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sam Rasoul
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0286) on 04/08/2022
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Trees; conservation and replacement during development process. [HB-706]
Trees during development process; conservation and replacement. Changes the timeframe for minimum canopy coverage for all localities from 20 years to 10 years and removes special provisions that had allowed for a timeframe of 10 years for the City of Williamsburg and local ordinances adopted prior to July 1, 1990. The bill provides an additional one-quarter times the canopy area credit for preservation of trees that are taller than 30 feet, thereby increasing the canopy area credit from one and one-quarter to one and one-half. Trees during development
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 02/15/2022
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Local government; hiring people with disabilities. [HB-710]
Local government hiring; people with disabilities. Requires any locality to take into consideration or give preference to an individual's status as a person with a disability in its employment hiring policies and practices, provided that such person with a disability meets all of the knowledge, skills, and eligibility requirements for the available position.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0306) on 04/11/2022
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Climate resilience; locality's comprehensive plan to consider strategies to address. [HB-520]
Comprehensive plan; climate resilience. Requires a locality's comprehensive plan to consider strategies to address climate resilience in order to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to changing conditions and hazardous events.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kenneth Plum
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License taxes; exemptions. [HB-698]
License taxes; exemptions. Authorizes localities to exempt any class of taxpayers from license taxes and fees. The bill provides that such exemption shall be made by general law and shall be uniform upon taxpayers operating in the same line of business or trade and that localities shall have discretion to determine the classes of taxpayers that shall be exempted. The bill does not apply to any severance tax that is levied as a license tax.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Keam
Subcommittee Recommends Continuing To 2023 By Voice Vote on 02/07/2022
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Trees; conservation during land development process, authorized localities. [HB-541]
Conservation of trees during land development process; authorized localities. Allows any locality to adopt an ordinance providing for the conservation of trees during the land development process. Under current law, only a locality within Planning District 8 that meets certain population density and nonattainment classification criteria is authorized to adopt such an ordinance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Convirs-Fowler
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Historic districts; required disclosure for buyer to beware, due diligence. [SB-286]
Required disclosure for buyer to beware; buyer due diligence; historic districts. Adds a survey of the property to the list of materials that a purchaser of the property can review as part of exercising whatever due diligence the particular purchaser deems necessary with respect to a historic district designated by the locality. Required disclosure for buyer to beware; buyer due diligence; historic districts. Adds a survey of the property to the list of materials that a purchaser of the property can review as part of exercising whatever due diligence
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/27/2022
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Bath County; fee for solid waste disposal. [SB-294]
Fee for solid waste disposal; Bath County. Adds Bath County to the list of counties that may by ordinance, and after a public hearing, levy a fee for the management of solid waste not to exceed the actual cost incurred by the county in removing and disposing of solid waste. The bill also grants Bath County various powers with regard to collection of the fee, including to levy penalties and interest for late payment and unpaid fees, to require payment of the fee prior to approval of certain land use applications, and to provide discounts to the standard
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Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0348) on 04/11/2022
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Electric utilities, certain; local reliability data provided to a locality upon request. [SB-280]
Electric utilities; local reliability data; report. Directs Dominion Energy Virginia to provide local reliability data within 30 days upon request by a locality located within the service territory of the utility. The State Corporation Commission shall include industry standard reliability metrics for Dominion Energy Virginia and a description of any infrastructure investments made by Dominion Energy Virginia to improve electric service reliability as part of its report on electric generation, transmission, and distribution submitted annually to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Requires 2/3 Affirmative Votes To Pass In Enrolled Form on 04/27/2022
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Loitering; curfew for minors, age restrictions on trick-or-treating. [HB-372]
Prohibiting loitering; curfew for minors; age restrictions on trick-or-treating. Prohibits localities from imposing age restrictions on trick-or-treating that exceed current loitering and curfew provisions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Convirs-Fowler
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State agencies and localities; solar-ready roof requirements, etc. [SB-290]
Solar-ready roofs for certain government buildings; net-zero energy consumption building design for schools. Requires any executive branch agency or institution and any locality entering the design phase for the construction of a new building greater than 5,000 gross square feet in size, or the renovation of a building where the cost of the renovation exceeds 50 percent of the value of the building, to ensure that such building includes a solar-ready, cool, or energy-efficient roof, defined in the bill. However, the provisions of the bill do not
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Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Failed To Report (defeated) In General Laws (10-y 12-n) on 02/24/2022
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Newspersons; crossing established police lines, exemption. [SB-240]
Newspersons crossing established police lines; exemption. Clarifies that a credentialed newsperson shall be exempt from the offense of crossing or remaining within police lines or barricades unless such persons are obstructing police, firefighters, or emergency medical services personnel in the performance of their duties within such police lines or barricades.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ghazala Hashmi
Stricken At The Request Of Patron In Judiciary (13-y 0-n) on 01/19/2022
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Energy benchmarking; access to data on energy usage in certain buildings, civil penalty. [HB-379]
Energy benchmarking; access to data on energy usage in certain buildings; civil penalty. Authorizes a locality to adopt an ordinance requiring utilities, upon request by the owner of a covered building, defined in the bill as any building with one or more utility accounts and a gross floor area of not less than 30,000 square feet, to provide the owner with aggregated measured energy usage data for multiple utility accounts of customers receiving service in the covered building. The bill makes such energy benchmarking mandatory for a covered building
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Sullivan
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GO Virginia Grants; extends sunset provision. [HB-654]
Certain GO Virginia Grants; matching funds; sunset. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, the sunset of the provision that allows a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants. Certain GO Virginia Grants; matching funds; sunset. Extends from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, the sunset of the provision that allows a locality to use grant funds awarded by the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission as matching funds for GO Virginia grants.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Wampler
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0137) on 04/07/2022
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Regional planning; climate resilience to be included as part of strategic plans. [HB-364]
Regional planning; climate resilience. Requires regional planning commissions to include climate resilience as part of their strategic plans.
Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
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License taxes, local; elimination of authority to impose. [HB-380]
Local license taxes; elimination of authority to impose. Prohibits any county, city, or town from imposing any license tax or fee in any taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2023. The bill does not apply to any severance tax that is levied as a license tax.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholas Freitas
Left In Finance on 02/15/2022
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Charitable institutions and associations; organizations applying for or receiving public funds, etc. [HB-377]
Charitable institutions and associations; local appropriations to faith-based organizations. Provides that no organization shall be prohibited from applying for or receiving public funds as part of a neutral grant or funding program from a locality on the basis of the organization's religious status, provided that all government funds received from the locality are used to provide community services for secular purposes, and further provides that nothing in the bill shall be construed to absolve or change any existing right or obligation created
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Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0566) on 04/11/2022
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Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. [SB-327]
Arrest and summons quotas; prohibition. Prohibits (i) any agency of the Commonwealth or director or chief executive of any agency or department employing law-enforcement officers; (ii) any sheriff; (iii) any police force; or (iv) the Department of State Police from establishing a formal or informal quota that requires a law-enforcement officer to make a specific number of arrests or issue a specific number of summonses within a designated period of time. The bill also provides that the number of arrests made or summonses issued by a law-enforcement
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Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0209) on 04/08/2022
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Sales and use tax, additional local; revenues to support construction or renovation of schools. [HB-531]
Additional local sales and use tax to support schools. Authorizes all counties and cities to impose an additional local sales and use tax at a rate not to exceed one percent, with the revenue used only for capital projects for the construction or renovation of schools. Under the bill, the tax can only be imposed if it is initiated by a resolution of the local governing body and approved by the voters in a referendum. The bill requires the governing body to specify in the enacting ordinance the time period, not to exceed 20 years, for which the tax
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
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Personal property; distrained or levied on property, auctioneers or auction firms outside county. [HB-449]
Distrained or levied on personal property; auctioneers or auction firms outside the county or city of an officer. Allows for the use of a Virginia-licensed auctioneer or auction firm in selling distrained or levied on personal property and the transportation of such property to an auction site for such sale, regardless of whether the auction site is within or outside the county or city of the officer responsible for selling such property. Under current law, an officer who distrains or levies on personal property is not allowed to remove such property
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Sponsored by: Rep. Terry Kilgore
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0062) on 04/01/2022